hv-dev VS specs

Fixing some short comings in tealr that people discovered. Also, making hv_lua work with tealr and ideally start adding that fishfight.

but the front end parts like asset formats, editors, accessibility etc.. are pretty stagnant. its hard to find a gltf/ktx2 crate with full functionality. its hard to find support for editing or dealing with wide variety of asset formats (only fyrox has an editor, but still doesn't support gltf). and literally none of the engines (except our savior https://github.com/sdleffler/hv-dev) focus on ease of use / accessibility to non-rust people like artists. the non-performance related stuff is always on the backburner. do people really expect me to recompile and run for little changes? having lua or some other language embedded would go a long long way imo to instead write scripts for fast iteration (live hot reloading too) and slowly port that to rust as we finalize the details.

The question arises from seeing a plethora of projects using ECS: hecs , Bevy , specs, legion

Instead, I'm using now the specs Library. It's a pure ECS library and much less powerful, without any visualization capabilities, but its works for me :)

writing an ECS is defined a challenging project, no matter the language or if you're a beginner. although it is entirely possible to write one in Rust, check out specs and bevy_ecs for examples.

specs

The official 3d rendering client uses a custom engine called Voxygen. They use Specs for logic.

Rust has a delightful ECS library, specs, that I absolutely love. It has safe multi-threaded execution built right in, which is fantastic for the pretty parallelizable work I was doing. Concurrency in C++ is nasty business on the best of days, and I've run into so many nasty bugs with the custom system I've had to build out to fit the web's weird threading model.

Man, this Specs [0] library is so strange to me, coming from a Unity background. Is there some sort of comparison as to why one way is better than the other?

[0] https://specs.amethyst.rs/

Hi everyone - I just picked up one of my long-unfinished side project built with Rust and would like to show it to you here. It's a clone of the famous(?) Winterbells game. It's written entirely in Rust and uses OpenGL and an entity-component-system architecture ([the `specs` crate](https://crates.io/crates/specs)) (still learning), no game engine.

Wait did the person at your company write specs or something else because they weren't pleased with it? I don't know much about amethyst and vaguely know about entity component systems but I watched a talk on someone making a game with amethyst and was pretty impressed -- it looked thoroughly approachable and I do not doubt the performance is there (since the whole reason you do ECS is performance).